The info not to be missed
A Defense Council is currently held at the Elysee Palace.
On the menu of discussions: the worrying level of circulation of the coronavirus in France.
Nearly 10,000 cases have been recorded in 24 hours, according to data released Thursday evening.
A record level since the start of the epidemic and the launch of large-scale tests in the country.
The resulting measures should be announced at 4 p.m. by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, during a press conference.
This week, Jean-François Delfraissy, the president of the Scientific Council who guides the public authorities in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic, warned that the government would "be forced to make a number of difficult decisions".
A qualified warning by Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, stressing that it was up to political leaders to "make decisions".
What to also remember
Christian Poncelet, Gaullist and former president of the Senate between 1998 and 2008, died at the age of 92, announced this Friday Jean Hingray, the mayor of Remiremont (Vosges) whose former second character of the State was him - same mayor from 1983 to 2001. Christian Poncelet, who readily described himself as "a convinced European and a loyal Gaullist", served as Secretary of State in three governments: that of Pierre Messmer, that of Jacques Chirac (1974-1976 ) and that of Raymond Barre (1976-1977), linking the Budget then Relations with Parliament after Social Affairs and the Civil Service.
The desire of the new ecological mayor of Bordeaux, Pierre Hurmic, to put an end to the traditional Christmas tree on the town hall square, earned him this Friday a volley of criticism, mainly from the right.
“We will not put dead trees in town squares, especially on Place Pey-Berland, you keep the memory of this dead tree that we brought in every year.
It's not at all our conception of revegetation, ”he said.
Nicolas Sarkozy for his part drew the wrath of a part of the left, which accused him of racism Thursday evening, after seeming to associate the words "monkeys" and "negroes".
Guest of the Quotidien show of Yann Barthès on TMC, the ex-president wondered if we still had "the right to say
monkey
"?
" We say what ?
The ten little soldiers
now?
That's it ?
Yeah… She's making the company progress!
", He added, mocking the deletion of the word" nigger "in one of Agatha Christie's novels.
"We may have the right to say monkey, without insulting anyone," he then added.
For the first time since 2011, PSG started their Ligue 1 season with a defeat.
Deprived of their stars - Mbappé, Neymar, Di Maria, Icardi, Navas - Thomas Tuchel's players gave in to Lens (1-0) on Thursday evening thanks to a goal from Ganago (57th), after a huge error by Bulka, the PSG substitute goalkeeper.
A slap that comes just 18 days after his Champions League final lost to Bayern Munich.
The unexpected info
With only two artists on stage and 45 obviously masked spectators, the famous cabaret of Michou, who died in January, will be the first Parisian party location to reopen this Friday evening.
The establishment of distancing was more difficult than elsewhere: the cabaret in the rue des Martyrs is the smallest in France with 80 spectators maximum, shoulder to shoulder, in normal times.
The next Parisian cabarets to reopen will be the Paradis Latin and the Crazy Horse, while the Moulin Rouge and Le Lido await the end of the year celebrations to bring out feathers and glitter.
